Sunday, 11 September 2016

Capital Celluloid 2016 - Day 288: Sat Oct 15

60th LONDON FILM FESTIVAL (5th-16th October 2016) DAY 11Every
day (from October 5th to October 16th) I will be selecting the London
Film Festival choices you have a chance to get tickets for and the
movies you are unlikely to see in
London very soon unless you go to see them at the Festival. Here is the LFF's main website for the general information you need. Don't
worry if some of the recommended films are sold out by the time you read this as there are always
some tickets on offer which go on sale 30 minutes before each
screening. Here is all the information you need about the best way to get tickets.

Julie Dash’s majestic first feature is a poignant portrait of three
generations of Gullah women (descendants of West African slaves) at the
turn of the 20th century as their family struggle with the decision to
migrate from their sea island home off the coast of South Carolina to
the mainland. Daughters portrayed a new type of blackness and black
identity – one located in a pastoral island setting still informed by
myth and ancestral traditions. Dash’s perspective is determinedly
feminist as she fuses together image, sound, authentic dialect and
traditions of African oral storytelling to portray the power, beauty,
and resilience of black women. Her vision and aesthetic sensibilities
perfectly capture a forgotten moment of the African American experience
and charts new ground in the representation of black women on screen.
One of the key inspirations for the film work that accompanied Beyoncé’s
Lemonade, this is a timely re-release for Dash’s powerful film.Karen Alexander